Products from the US will have no longer tax. But products that are from here imported to the US will have addition 19% tariff. While it's only 1% discount and we want more. The delegation together with our president shouldn't went there and just had a phone call just like the leader of Indonesia that he has called Trump and able to lessen the tariffs imposed to their country and I think from 32% it became 19% as well.
Maybe but you must think about it more widely. Philipines already had a good tariff deal in terms of percentage so he could not lower it too much. If they gave Philippines 10% then other Asian countries may demand the same low percentage.
Yeah, I've actually thought of that. It makes sense that the other nearby countries have the same tariff just as us. But what I'm pointing out is that if the same tariff will be applied to us, our government shouldn't went there with a lot of delegations and representatives. Even Trump mentioned that on his post in truth social and that means a lot of money has been spent on that just to lower it to 1% for that attendance.
He was the most embarrassing president of the Philippines in history when that happened. Then they will say that it was a big victory. How did that become a victory? All the products that the US will import are zero percent in the Philippines, and then the Philippines is 19% in the US.
That's how media works for them, they want to be grandstanding or should I say 'he'. Yesterday was his state of the nation but I didn't watched it and just read some reviews and highlights of it and he didn't even mentioned that as an accomplish.